Things that have made me laugh this morning
The morning's just barely begun, and already two things have made me laugh:
That kind of day
The kind of day where your sandwich falls on the floor.
Comment spam update
A couple of notes about my recent comment spam experiences: MT 3.2 continues to have the same pros and cons...
Dark side of the Plot
About halfway through reading the Slate article "Star Wars: Episodes I-VI: The greatest postmodern art film ever," by Aidan Wasley,...
Trailblazers
These items aren't quite coherently connected, but they felt like they made a certain amount of sense together. There's a...
Weekend
In other news, it was a busy weekend. I went to Kam's Halloween party on Friday night, and Sonya's birthday...
Haircut
Sunday I went to my usual haircut place to get a haircut. I think the guy who cut my hair...
Valley shrinks again; film at 11
Monday at work, someone wandered by my cube looking for a particular cube number where a new employee was supposed...
More about posting comments
Several people have had trouble posting comments to my journal in the past few weeks; they post a comment, and...
Millionth word
I'm sleepy and headachey, so figured I'd take a break from serious magazine work to post something a little more...
Performance tuning
Karen pointed out recently that an important part of our submissions database was being really really slow. I had noticed,...
Don’t spam the editors
Here's another piece of advice for writers. (Or anyone else, but writers are who I see doing this.) When you're...